Gavin Rossdale

“I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, t...”

“Being real is what is important.”

“It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.”

“Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.”

“When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.”

“The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.”

“I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.”

“I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.”

“I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.”

“As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.”